StarrySkye21
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2021
Rushed here just to say - “Nooooooooooo”!!!
At least we got to ride it once before the options were 5hr standby or $30 a person ($50? Who knows?)
See, I think people would have bought the LL access regardless since so many wouldn't get a boarding group. I don't see it as an attempt to get more people to buy it - people were ALREADY going to buy it!
I’ve been practicing over and over too. While I was always able to get in for the 1pm boarding, the 7 am boarding is very, very hard.I have been practicing at home on the app to learn how snag a VQ boarding group before our upcoming November trip. I felt fairly confident that I could get us on, and was okay with it.
Now my choices are to rope drop (will probably grow to be a 2 hour wait within minutes of rope drop) or to spend half our day standing in line.
So no, I’m definitely not thrilled about this. I understand this will make it feel more “fair” and less like a lottery system, but it will essentially make HS an all-day park (half waiting in line, half other attractions) if you can’t afford to skip the line.
The best way to convince people to pay $24pp is to have morning Boarding Groups run out in 5 seconds (what's currently happening) and then not offer any afternoon Boarding Groups. You then get to decide at 7 AM whether you want to cough up the $24pp for the free Boarding Group that you were unable to get in the morning.I’m definitely not happy about this. If you thought Flight of Passage had a ridiculous standby lane, you haven’t seen anything yet. This is how Disney is going to convince people to pay $24/pp to skip the 5 hour standby queue.
I'm hoping ROTR Standby lines means that other Standby lines will be shorter.Sweet now slinky dog will only be like an hour wait!! lol
See, I think people would have bought the LL access regardless since so many wouldn't get a boarding group. I don't see it as an attempt to get more people to buy it - people were ALREADY going to buy it!
I agree! We are not fans of the Genie + and IA$ changes, but had already decided to just hand Mickey our credit card on HS day and not even try for a boarding pass. Been there, done that - hate it. It puts too much stress on your HS day if you don't get one right away (or not at all). Even if you do, it's a crappy way to start off your vacation day. Now, I'm not so sure we will actually pay for the Rise Lightning Lane. We will at least wait and see how long the lines are. So if enough people are of the same mindset I really don't think it will make that much difference as to how many people pay the extra to ride. Getting those BG's was going to be even harder than before as there would be even less of them to go around with paid Lightning Lane getting who knows what percentage of them. Tons of people were going to pay, regardless.
I'm happy about this change.